Top 9 Realtime Backend / API Products in CMS

The best Realtime Backend / API Products within the CMS category - based on our collection of reviews & verified products.

Product categories

API Tools API-first CMS APIs Blogging Blogging Platform CMS Developer Tools GraphQL Group Chat & Notifications Realtime Backend / API Video Players & Editors Web Frameworks

Summary

The top products on this list are Hasura, PocketBase.io, and AppWrite. All products here are categorized as: Platforms providing backend services and APIs for real-time applications and data management. CMS stands for Content Management System. . One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Hasura Landing Page
1

Hasura

Hasura is an open platform to build scalable app backends, offering a built-in database, search, user-management and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#API Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Mobile Push Messaging 123 social mentions
PocketBase.io Landing Page
2

PocketBase.io

Open Source backend with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard, all compiled in 1 portable executable.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Open Source #Realtime Backend / API #Web Frameworks 97 social mentions
AppWrite Landing Page
3

AppWrite

Appwrite provides web and mobile developers with a set of easy-to-use and integrate REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service #Developer Tools 176 social mentions
Directus Landing Page
4

Directus

Free and Open-Source Headless CMS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Website Builder 126 social mentions
How to GraphQL Landing Page
5

How to GraphQL

Open-source tutorial website to learn GraphQL development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Realtime Backend / API #GraphQL #Developer Tools 2 social mentions
Sanity.io Landing Page
6

Sanity.io

Sanity.io a platform for structured content that comes with an open-source editor that you can customize with React.js.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#CMS #API Tools #Realtime Backend / API 56 social mentions
BigScreen VR Landing Page

7

BigScreen VR

Your desktop in virtual reality, with friends; play games, watch movies, and hangout in VR.

#Realtime Backend / API #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtual Reality 2 social mentions
GraphQL Playground Landing Page

8

GraphQL Playground

GraphQL IDE for better development workflows

#Realtime Backend / API #GraphQL #Developer Tools 12 social mentions
GraphCMS Landing Page

9

GraphCMS

The GraphQL Headless CMS

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 19 social mentions

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